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OU BOARD OF REGENTS

Money to fund scholarship Regents modify policy to include academic funding ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor

OU officials were given permission to buy a commercial area across from Adams Center and allocate $500,000 of Student Activity Fees to fund scholarships at the OU Board of Regents meeting Wednesday. OU’s Board of Regents modified the

Student Activity Fee Policy to allocate the fees to fund university scholarships. Previously, the regents’ policy only allowed activity fees to fund non-academic activities benefitting the student community as a whole, according to the meeting agenda. The board approved modifying this policy to allow a portion of the fees to fund academic scholarships available to any qualified student. The fees to be used for scholarships are left over from funds set aside for

Oklahoma Memorial Union renovations, according to the agenda. Since OU has retired the union debt, the funds previously allocated for the renovations are now available for other uses. Members of OU’s Student Activity Fee Reserve Committee were charged with deciding what to do with these leftover fees, which amounted to $500,000. Over the summer, members of the committee decided to use SEE REGENTS PAGE 3

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CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

OU researcher proposes early solution to gap Childhood education programs may reduce economic acheivement gap MAX JANERKA

Campus Reporter

An OU researcher believes she’s found a way to lessen the achievement gap between children from wealthier homes and those from poor homes. An achievement gap does exist between these group, however it can be decreased by good early childhood education programs, said Diane Horm, director of the Early Childhood Education Institute at OU Tulsa. If the programs are really high quality and intensive early in a child’s the achievement gap can be completely erased, she said. That’s not the only research project focusing on early childhood education going on at the institute, however, Horm said. Most of the institute’s work is in program evaluation with Head Start, Early Head Start and other early childhood programs that serve young children growing up in poverty and their families, she said. Right now, Horm and others at the institute are building SEE GAP PAGE 3

PRIDE

Pride leadership changes pregame performances JACQUELINE EBY/THE DAILY

Sophmore Eric Sticker relaxes in his living room with his iPad Wednesday evening at Headington Hall.

Headington Hall offers useful amenities Residents making full use of gameroom, theater and other perks at their disposal RACHAEL MONTGOMERY Campus Reporter

Headington Hall residents have been living in the building for a month now, and they’re finding their rhythm in the newly built building that includes amenities like a movie theatre and game room. The most used area of the building is the game room, which has a table tennis table and is set to get three new pool tables with the next week, said Bryan Hinnen, director of operations for Headington Hall.

Expect slight changes in routines and exercises for the before-game show ARIANNA PICKARD Campus Editor

“The game room is probably the one of the features students use the most. They can plug in their gaming consoles or watch TV,” Hinnen said. As well, students can watch movies in a 70-seat movie theatre, a feature no other residence hall on campus has. “They show movies late at night, so that’s pretty cool,” political science sophomore Eric Striker said. Last year Striker, sophomore linebacker, lived at the Bud Wilkinson House, commonly referred to as the Bud, he said. “I like Headington [Hall] better just because I have my own room now and everything is so nice, but the food at the Bud was better. But I think that’s because Headington is just

The Pride of Oklahoma marching band director is making changes to restore parts of the band’s pregame performance to its original format. The Pride’s student leadership team discussed changing parts of the pregame and halftime marches at a weekly meeting with their director, Justin Stolarik, on Tuesday, said Brandon Rothfusz, trombonist and member of the leadership team. “We’re going to do a couple changes to pregame to sort of change it back to its original format in some ways,” said Rothfusz, professional writing junior. In addition to making some changes to the band’s performance, Stolarik is going to add approximately

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